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en-usTechdirt. Stories filed under "reflection"https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/td-88x31.gifhttps://www.techdirt.com/Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:25:34 PSTCarmen Ortiz Refuses To Reflect; Insists Her Office Will Do Everything The Same As BeforeMike Masnickhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130121/12583621741/carmen-ortiz-refuses-to-reflect-insists-her-office-will-do-everything-same-as-before.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130121/12583621741/carmen-ortiz-refuses-to-reflect-insists-her-office-will-do-everything-same-as-before.shtmlabout Aaron Swartz, we highlighted Larry Lessig's quite reasonable anger at US Attorney Carmen Ortiz's failure to even suggest that she and her office might review their actions against Aaron Swartz to see if they were reasonable. He wasn't calling on them to necessarily repudiate their actions -- but to at least admit that they would review what they had done to determine if it was appropriate. Instead, Ortiz's statement took the hard line that what they had done was appropriate, full stop.

Ortiz’s spokeswoman, Christina DiIorio-Sterling, said last night the Swartz case won’t affect the office’s handling of other cases. “Absolutely not,” she said. “We thought the case was reasonably handled and we would not have done things differently.

“We’re going to continue doing the work of the office and of following our mission.”

Many others are calling on Ortiz, or her bosses in the Justice Department, to recognize just how much power they have over someone's life, and that this power must be used carefully. The response of Ortiz and her spokespeople seems to show not even the slightest sympathy or recognition that they have the power to destroy lives, and that such power needs to be used judiciously. It strikes me that someone who fails to have humility while in control of such power is someone who is simply not qualified to hold such an office.